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Derek Wildstar wrote:
> OK, hopefully this info will help someone somewhere =)
>
> I have run a few installs/upgrades:
>
> 1) Dell Inspiron 7500 192M/15g, ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (8m),
> 3ccfe575ct (3com 3c575 CardBus NIC), Gold Card Global PCMCIA v.90 modem,
> dvd/floppy module, 1400x1050 LCD display, Cel 466
>
> First I installed on a spare 6g partition, originally used for windoze
> variants for crash-tests, etc. The Custom/Expert install with everything
> selected ran and booted fine, except for the following problems:
>
> I had to copy a self-compiled XF86_Mach64 binary before X would
> work without using the fbdev server. This binary was created using
> a patch by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> located at the following URL:
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/XMa64-3.3.5-steveh.diff
> This patch extends the capability of the Mach64 server to work with
> this and other Rage Mobility cards. The normal XF86Config lines work,
> except I added the following for 1400x1050 support:
> Mode "1400x1050"
> DotClock 220.00
> HTimings 1400 1488 1904 2072
> VTimings 1050 1053 1069 1102
> Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
> EndMode
> or if you prefer the old format:
> modeline "1400x1050" 220 1400 1488 1904 2072 1050 1053 1069 1102 -hsync
>-vsync
>
> Since many more people are installing on laptops it would be great to
> get this into the distro. If you would like my binary let me know and
> I'll put it up for ftp (the binary on steveh's site leaves out a few
> things like XXA and ttf support)
>
> The second try on this machine was an upgrade from Mandrake 6.1. I
> was disappointed to find that the update first removed all packages it
> didn't know about, so the only things left was custom stuff in
> /usr/local. sgmltools seems to be completely missing, as well as
> ghostscript. I can come up with a more detailed list if needed, but
> looking at the system after 7.0upgrade got to it gave the impression
> that the update process was removing everything. Wouldn't it be
> better to only remove packages it knows about? This was also done in
> expert mode, and I was not offered a choice of packages.
>
> When the machine was rebooted my X config had been wiped, as well as
> my network config, and all the entries in resolv.conf were commented
> out. The 3c575 was not detected properly by the pcmcia utils bundles
> with the distribution, I used pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 from my /usr/src
> directory (about the only thing in /usr that wasn't wiped) then the
> network came up flawlessly
>
> 2) Unknown Sagar laptop, 2g disk, 80m ram, unknown 32-bit video (assuming
> NeoMagic or some variant), P-200
>
> First I tried the Worlstation/Recommended install. The partition
> process turned up the following:
> 10m /boot
> 995m /
> 995m swap
>
> I would have done:
> 150m /
> 100m /var
> 50m /tmp
> 1540m /usr
> 160m swap
>
> Do we all agree that almost 1g swap is a bit excessive on an 80mb
> system =) We can get the ram from /proc/meminfo, seems it would make
> more sense to double that and make it swap by default, and split out
> /var so logs don't overrun the system.
>
> After seeing the partition layout from the console while the install
> was runing, I promptly killed the install and restarted with my own
> partition layout, susing a Workstation/Expert install so I could
> control the partition layout and what was going on. I was not offered
> any package selection screen before the install process started, but
> was asked questions before other steps in the install process. The
> video card was probed successfully by the install process, and the
> default resolution was properly maxed out at 800x600x32bpp. Network
> is untested because there wasn't a spare pcmcia NIC immediately
> availible.
>
> 3) Dell GX1p pIII-550, 256mb/10gb, 3c905 onboard NIC, onboard ATI
> Mach64 variant video (not used but active) STB nvida agp video (active).
>
> Same install problems noted above.
>
> The only other known problem is netscape will completely lock up the
> machine if 1) dns is not configured or 2) the site is not found
> alt-sysrq still passes to the kernel but ping from the network,
> ctrl-alt-bksp and ctrl-shift-f1 in an attempt to get a console are all
> ignored. There are no oopses printed or logged.
>
> Otherwise the installation looks great! Mandrake 7.0 is going to be the
> _only_ distro capable of talking to laptop graphics cards....corel won't,
> redhat needs extreme tweaking..
>
> -dws
